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Man, I miss that last week's SF19@Suzuka so much...

The combo really brings some thrilling fight there while the handling and the OTS system are so addictive!

Here is one of the good battle I'd like to share with you guys.
(Thank god he didn't spin out at the exit of the hairpin, or I'ii definitely got 5 sec penalty and threw away any chance of winning! )

Hope the SF19 will come back to sport mode soon! (will be better with Silverstone etc. :lol:)

 
Just did a 1:29.386. That should put me well ahead of the D/S faithful. Hey, everyone has to start at the bottom when they buy the game, but it was too much with those D players not knowing where to place their cars. Hugging the inside line all thbe way around the track. At full speed. Then, choosing to slow down, so they can crawl around the apex. Come now...

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Edit: grabbed the lead at the start, but gave too much room to the Pole sitter. Compromised the exit speeds in the esses. Got some aero wash or something, because I couldn't flick from left to right under the overpass and broadsided the left wall. Still, glad I qualified. Now, to set a Gr.3 time.

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Fuji is just sick. Every time in T1 there is total chaos with many cars off the track. Each time several riders try to win the race right after the start in T1. I already know that from the last races there and basically only start from the back of the field in Fuji. Partly I am already on place 5 or 6 after T1. Although I benefit from it, I did not like it at all. Something like that completely destroys the races. Give everyone who slows much too late 30 seconds penalty. After a few races, most of them will probably have got it and drive cleaner
 
05XR8
Just did a 1:29.386. That should put me well ahead of the D/S faithful. Hey, everyone has to start at the bottom when they buy the game, but it was too much with those D players not knowing where to place their cars. Hugging the inside line all the way around the track. At full speed. Then, choosing to slow down, so they can crawl around the apex. Come now...
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Because that's just the way we roll :sly:.
 
Skinny McLean
You perform a brake-check (as clearly seen in your GIF) - and then you have the gall to go on-line and complain about getting rear-ended? Or did you really, after - what is it - 5000 races, believe you're supposed to brake before T3?
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He entered the turn too wide, and there are people about to mess up just in front of him, and he barely touched the brakes. The guy behind him probably didn't have the time to react so yeah no real point to complain.
On the other side, if you don't touch the brakes in these situations, you're part of the problem.
But I get it, you wanted to complain about a guy that complains. Makes total sense.

The SF are stupid to drive outside of a super clean and experienced lobby like pretty much all powerful and supelight cars that have loads of downforce. I did not race Suzuka because I tried the campaign Suzuka race on the first day I bought a SF, and I knew that any sport race on these cars would be a crapshow. It could maybe work on wide tracks, or in the finals of FIA races, but not on the regular GT sport mode with regular dirty and sloppy drivers.
 
suprajef
I turned my cones off during the beta and have left them off since and have had no problems...jus sayin
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Im completely understand what you're getting at, I was arguing a different point and I guess I wasnt explaining it well enough. I only recently turned the cones on last week to help me get accustomed to the braking and turn in points. The last couple of turns at Fuji are especially helped by their presence. But I will definitely be turning them off for races from now on.

Dorofint
Fuji is just sick. Every time in T1 there is total chaos with many cars off the track. Each time several riders try to win the race right after the start in T1. I already know that from the last races there and basically only start from the back of the field in Fuji. Partly I am already on place 5 or 6 after T1. Although I benefit from it, I did not like it at all. Something like that completely destroys the races. Give everyone who slows much too late 30 seconds penalty. After a few races, most of them will probably have got it and drive cleaner
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In my first race I was really lucky to start 2nd and get a good start off the line which put me on the inside line for T1. 3rd or 4th braked late but it was pretty clean for me. I kept looking in my rear view mirror to see a plethora of red flashing lights, though.

Sometimes it's worth it just to take yourself out of the mess though, if there's no trust.
 
I haven't raced since the updates, ran a few quali laps on Race B last night. I am not sure if its the fact that I have been away from it for a good 10 days or the updates, but it feels fundamentally different on my G29.

I ran about 7 laps in the Beetle and I literally do no feel connected to the track, it felt like I was surviving a lap, rather than driving it! Anyone else noticed anything??
 
Lilium
@05XR8 the Z4 is fantastic, but lacks on the acceleration on the straight. the SLS is the z4 on steroids and better grip on low gears.
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Yeah, I just ran in the AMG GT. Felt good(forgot that had to run the Lambo and RC F first, did those). Next, the SLS. and finally, the GT-R. I'll post finishing positions.
 
gtpierre
He entered the turn too wide, and there are people about to mess up just in front of him, and he barely touched the brakes. The guy behind him probably didn't have the time to react so yeah no real point to complain.
On the other side, if you don't touch the brakes in these situations, you're part of the problem.
But I get it, you wanted to complain about a guy that complains. Makes total sense.

The SF are stupid to drive outside of a super clean and experienced lobby like pretty much all powerful and supelight cars that have loads of downforce. I did not race Suzuka because I tried the campaign Suzuka race on the first day I bought a SF, and I knew that any sport race on these cars would be a crapshow. It could maybe work on wide tracks, or in the finals of FIA races, but not on the regular GT sport mode with regular dirty and sloppy drivers.
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Thanks for taking a closer look. I was indeed wide from avoiding the 2 cars behind me that messed up right before. I started last and went a bit faster towards that turn to clear the two cars struggling to stay / get back on the track. The two cars in front of me looked about to collide, plus there was the car on the side looking to re-enter the track. So yep, my instinct was to tap the brakes to give me options to avoid whatever was going to play out in front of me. I do not blame the cars behind me for hitting me (although really, why not take it a bit more easy after just messing up), the point of that gif was the penalty system failing.

The car was fun to drive, yet indeed overconfidence mixed with inexperience plus a dash of lag, a recipe for contact. Still much better than Tokyo. I don't think wider tracks are the answer, less lag will certainly help. It was the very loose track limits in that combo that had people take far too many risks. I saw people completely miss Degner and not get anything for it. The second part of the final chicane seemed to be optional as well. Catalunya's strict track limits are keeping everyone on track with less incidents as a result.
 
drummingcat
I haven't raced since the updates, ran a few quali laps on Race B last night. I am not sure if its the fact that I have been away from it for a good 10 days or the updates, but it feels fundamentally different on my G29.

I ran about 7 laps in the Beetle and I literally do no feel connected to the track, it felt like I was surviving a lap, rather than driving it! Anyone else noticed anything??
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I don't know what it is exactly but, this week, I just cannot put a decent q lap on the dailies. I'm just sliding all over the place and, indeed, don't feel connected to the road at all.

Now, I know I'm not one of the fastest guys but I can normally run around 2-3 slower than the top times. Well, not this week. It was fine on Suzuka last week but as soon as I tried this week's dailies it felt really different. I tried changing the settings on my G29 but that didn't help at all. Strange ....
 
After my initial success in a mostly DR/D grid last night, I made the mistake of doing the half past midnight run a couple of hours later. I managed to set a slightly better qualifying time, but ended up starting P9 instead of P5. This was because I got stuck in a race with large numbers of DR/Bs... never a good thing :crazy:.

Auto drive dumped me on the exit to the final chicane, but I expected this so I already had the stick across :p. And we're off! T1 was a mess, but not for me and I slowly cleared past the wreckage. I was up to P6 on lap 2 and feeling pretty happy with that. I was all lined up for TV3 when I hear screaming from behind me "Hey hey hey clear the way! There's no escape from my authority! I am the One the only One, I am the bob of kingdom come! Gimme The Prize! " as in typical B/S fashion the drongo who started on pole decided I was a convenient way of clearing T7/8 by side swiping me into the sand :mad:. I was knocked back to P12 and finished the race P11.

SR was white, DR dropped about 150. Damage was minimised by the presence of DR/Bs Another day above DR 1 :rolleyes:.
 
drummingcat
I haven't raced since the updates, ran a few quali laps on Race B last night. I am not sure if its the fact that I have been away from it for a good 10 days or the updates, but it feels fundamentally different on my G29.

I ran about 7 laps in the Beetle and I literally do no feel connected to the track, it felt like I was surviving a lap, rather than driving it! Anyone else noticed anything??
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Has your wheel been hooked up all this time and/or your PS4 in rest mode? Try restarting console and unplugging the wheel.
 
Dairyworker
I treid a few laps in the audi this morning and i just am not feling that combo. I don't like eithe r of the other tracks this week so i might do some a races but mostly i thinm i will doing personal time trials and possibly give some of my other games some playtime. I cant believe some of the lap times for the a race, i can't see myself gettin under 1.30....
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I'm with you. I can't fault PD for Catalunya, proper track and been a while since it was used but i just have ZERO pace there against high B and A drivers. Fuji i despise and reverse tracks i despise so i will blame PD there. Race A is just a mess, it should run the correct way FFS.

Speaking of Catalunya, I logged in and saw my friends' list, most are B drivers, 9 on the list and 8 of the 9 ran 1.50's with one in the 1.47's. I turned a few laps and got down to a 1.48.6, i enter a race and BOOM .... STONE MOTHERLESS LAST of 16 drivers. Tried to keep up with my fellow racers and fell off the road as a result, annoying and no fun.

i'm out for the week.
 
05XR8
I love Race B, but some players need to stop blocking. Seriously.
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The disadvantage of starting last in a short race is that sometimes you're not going anywhere. One of my races yesterday I started behind a 1 bar connection. Not a fast driver but good enough to stay on the road and with his lag stalling his car in every corner, impossible to get a run on him. A bit of defensive driving with the lag making the car teleport side to side, can't pass.

The ghosting in the penalty zone needs looking at though. When two cars serve their penalty side by side it leaves very little room to go around with other traffic. I've seen many people get slowed by running into ghosts while the ghosts are not affected. This can't be how it was intended to work. The cars still go through the ghost but it looks like they just hit a deep puddle of water.
 
Sven Jurgens
The ghosting in the penalty zone needs looking at though. When two cars serve their penalty side by side it leaves very little room to go around with other traffic. I've seen many people get slowed by running into ghosts while the ghosts are not affected. This can't be how it was intended to work. The cars still go through the ghost but it looks like they just hit a deep puddle of water.
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JoeyLeonine
Instead just ghosting in the penalty zone you should be autodriven off of the racing line. This can be done at full/current speed in a pre-serving way before then ghosting and serving the time.
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I think one "simple" way to fix it would be to add an additional penalty zone but I guess it is tricky to place a penalty zone in a place so that 3s cost you the same time in penalty zone A and penalty zone B. So probably not so simple.
 
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